Saberes emergentes, intervención social crítica y nuevo contrato social en la Colombia del siglo XXI

Th e post-confl ict Colombia is emerging as a society characterized by multiple material and symbolic issues in the order: political, economic, social and cultural and other spheres of reality, which require research programs and exercises -from deep refl ection coordinates social and human sciences, to structure a concerted fashion the answers to these typical problems of the dialectical relationships that develop between political sociabilities, actors of power, identities and social representations own twenty-fi rst century in the south. Th is paper explores the epistemological options from which can be tailored strategies and social processes, useful intervention to structure a new or renewed social contract in Colombia towards the achievement of peace. We conclude that critical social science can provide tools and knowledge conducive to the resolution of historical confl icts that fatigues the State and society as a whole.